I would really like gnome-terminal to default to a UTF-8 encoding, but whatever I do, I can't get it to do it.
I don't have sudo access, so I cannot edit /etc/environment. I'm on a university-managed ...

I was using the BBB (BeagleBone Black) for a while now but with Arch Linux. Now that Debian also supports systemd I decided to give it a try. So I followed this guide and used the eMMC flasher image ...

Is it possible to view Japanese (or more generally, international) fonts in emacs without running X11?
If yes, what is the process?
Nearly all the references I have found on the internet related to ...

I want to use an en_IL.UTF-8 locale - but I can't locale-gen it. I can choose this value in /etc/default/locale but that's apparently not enough for all apps. It seems like I need to get locale-gen to ...

I'd like to customize exclusively the date and time format for my system, while sticking to the rest of the locale as is. I know that environment variable LC_TIME will make it possible to customize ...

I recently had to reinstall GNOME on my Debian7 system, the reason being there was a problem with the older version.
Unfortunately, probably since I am in Belgium, it has installed part French, part ...

I'm trying to copy a directory of Korean and Japanese music on a Debian Jessie box. The source file system is HFS+J (Mavericks vintage) from a dead Mac, mounted with hfstools:
# mount -t hfsplus -o ...

I have a machine with Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" (installed as RC, with all available updates applied) and MATE desktop environment. My problem is that in some applications special characters ...

I can't get emacs (version 24.4.1) in text mode (-nw launch option) to display Unicode characters directly. It outputs them in escaped form, e.g. ä becomes \344. When I save the file, it is encoded as ...

On Debian and Ubuntu is it possible to limit the locales which have to be configured?
I know that /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en govern which locales are being ...

I am having multiple issues with locale and language settings in terminal (specifically, gnome-terminal).
For testing purposes, in mint-locale I have set both Language and Region to "English, Canada ...

I installed the latest Linux Deepin 2014.2 distro. It's a Chinese distro based on Ubuntu 14.04.
The OS is great, but there's one annoying flaw - when switching language, there appears a transparent ...

I'm Brazilian but when I installed Debian on my machine I set the language to English (US). I prefer to keep my menus and error messages in English because they are more googable (and the translations ...

I installed Debian sid with Xfce and I would like to change the language used in the interface. I would like to set the language to English (US) remplacing French. The change must be on whole system ...

Kubuntu's GUI (like here), for locale settings is very detailed. Is there a way to get a similar, detailed GUI outside of Kubuntu without installing the entire KDE desktop environment?
I have here a ...